The latest statistics on the emerging coronavirus (Covid-19) showed that the infected exceeded the barrier of 10.25 million infections, this comes amid medical optimism that there are vaccines available by 2021.
According to the World Meters website, which specializes in monitoring and counting the number of coronavirus victims, the number of infected people reached 10 million and 250 thousand and 322 infected, while the number of deaths reached 504 thousand and 489 deaths globally.
The United States topped the list with two million and 637 thousand injuries, the number of deaths reached more than 128 thousand, while the number of people recovered reached more than 1.93 million.
Sunday, California Governor Gavin Newsom ordered the closure of bars in Los Angeles and 6 other provinces in this southwestern state, which are experiencing a significant increase in the number of people infected with the new Corona virus.
Authorities in other parts of the country have also reimposed closures, in an attempt to curb the dramatic increase in the number of HIV infections.
The United States briefly succeeded in reducing the number of new infections to less than 20,000 a day, but this number has risen from days ago, exceeding the 30,000 threshold.
According to Anthony Fawcci, director of the American National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, there is nothing guaranteed in vaccine science, but he says that the data he has seen give positive signals.
"I am cautiously optimistic that we can have candidate vaccines available by 2021," he added.
Responding to a question about whether China would reach a vaccine against Corona before the United States, he said: "I hope that they will get the vaccine, I hope everyone will reach a vaccine, it is not related to competition to win a match," considering that the performance of the United States is not good with It's about tracking cases and people who have been in contact with them.
Numbers and fears
In the context of numbers, Brazil is still the second largest in the world in terms of the number of injuries by one million and 345 thousand and 245 injuries, and the number of deaths in this Latin American country exceeded 57 thousand deaths.
In China, the country where the first cases of HIV were recorded, the National Health Commission said - on Monday - that it had recorded 12 new confirmed cases of the Corona virus, compared to 17 cases the previous day.
This comes in light of the Beijing capital seeking to curb a new wave of infection that appeared in mid-June in a wholesale market.
The committee pointed out that 5 of the new cases were for people from abroad, adding that it monitored the other seven cases in Beijing.
The total number of HIV infections in China has reached 83,512 cases, while the number of deaths remains stable since mid-May at 4,634.
For his part, the Institute of Biological Products in Beijing announced the achievement of what he described as positive results of the vaccine being developed in the first phase of clinical trials involving 1120 people.
Restrictions
In Australia, Victoria State said today that it is considering re-imposing social divergence restrictions, after the country announced the largest daily increase in the number of cases of coronavirus in more than two months.
Although no new infection numbers have been released in several other states yet, Victoria - Australia's most populous state - said it had recorded 75 injuries in the past 24 hours, in the largest daily toll since April 11.
The high number raised fears of a second wave of infection, after several weeks of recording less than 20 infections a day.
Europe, Austria announced Sunday that it will force travelers from a German area infested with Covid-19 to show a health certificate proving that they are free of the emerging Corona virus, to allow them to enter its territory.
"We are following a common line," Health Minister Rudolf Anschuber told the ORF television network, in response to a question about the possibility of preventing the residents of Gutersloh - the canton in western Germany - from entering Austria.
On Wednesday, the cantonal authorities in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, with a population of 360,000, reimposed closure measures to limit the spread of the epidemic.
For its part, a donor conference held remotely made pledges of nearly $ 7 billion in aid to combat the Corona virus.
The conference came within the framework of an initiative between the European Union and the American non-governmental organization "Global Citizen", and concluded with a concert by international stars broadcast live on television and on the Internet.
Arab developments
On the Arab level, the Palestinian Ministry of Health announced the death of a woman from the city of Hebron, who was affected by the infection with the Corona virus, raising the total number of deaths in the Palestinian territories to 8 cases.
In Iraq, Director of Public Health at the Iraqi Ministry of Health, Riyad Al-Halfi, said that Iraq is recording large numbers in the number of people infected with Coronavirus, which calls for a comprehensive and strict ban to limit the spread of the virus.
After the meeting of the Higher Scientific Advisory Committee in the Ministry of Health to discuss the epidemiological situation, Al-Halfi said that the countries where the epidemic has spread imposed a strict ban, which contributed to the decline in the number of infections, and added that the ban imposed in Iraq during the last period did not achieve the desired goals.
Al-Halfi called for tightening the social divergence procedures, and imposing a 4-week ban, "after which the epidemiological situation will be evaluated in the country", indicating that these demands will be submitted to the National Health and Safety, to be discussed and appropriate decisions taken in this regard.
For his part, Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi said that his government used all its capabilities to face the Corona pandemic, but the poor infrastructure of the Iraqi health sector is the reason for the aggravation of the suffering of the Iraqi citizen.
In a statement, Al-Kazemi pledged to work towards "correcting the wrong paths and finding effective solutions to advance the health situation in the country, as he put it." He pointed out that the province of Dhi Qar needs special support and attention.
A second stage
And in Qatar, Doha announced the start of implementing the second phase of measures to lift Corona virus measures, next Wednesday.
And the government liaison office in Qatar attributed - in a statement on Sunday - that step to the skip the peak stage, the low curve and the weak reproductive number of the virus.
The second stage of the gradual lifting of virus precautions includes the continuation of the limited opening of mosques to perform the five assumptions with a limited capacity, according to the statement.
It allows public and private gatherings of up to 5 people instead of 10, after many cases are discovered because of this.
The statement stressed that it allows (in the second stage) to raise the capacity of employees who start their work in the public and private sectors to 50% as needed.
The second stage includes the opening of all parks, beaches and corniche for all age groups, with the application of spacing procedures.
It also includes allowing open training and limited opening of restaurants with limited capacity, chartering ships and yachts for families with a maximum of 10 people.